Which music player do you use?

[Arafails]

Originally Posted by Znurre

For me Amarok uses ~80 mb RAM with a playlist of ~300 tracks.
To me that is not a very large memory footprint.

$ ps ux --sort=-rss  | egrep -m 7 .
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
fudje    18800  7.0  3.6 1232264 130048 pts/0  Sl+  00:45   0:30 amarok
fudje     6788  4.5  3.1 956260 111692 pts/0   Sl+  Jan26  91:19 mutter --mutter-plugins=libgnome-shell --replace
fudje    13828  0.1  2.5 1075088 91316 pts/0   SLl+ Jan27   0:41 evolution
fudje    19105  1.1  1.7 2785936 61828 pts/0   Sl+  00:50   0:00 epiphany
fudje    18783  1.1  1.7 1025768 61532 pts/0   Sl+  00:44   0:05 rhythmbox
fudje    15109  0.0  1.1 796660 41364 pts/0    Sl+  Jan27   0:07 nautilus --no-desktop /home/fudje/Images

Rhythmbox is known to be a memory hog, as music players go, and it's using, what, 55 or so MB less memory here? While providing 10 more tracks. That's not even counting the extra memory used by kdeinit. Also, 7% CPU to idle? Even mutter's not using that much, and it's doing desktop composition @75Hz (and leaking memory like a bitch)....

Of course, that's irrelevant. Clearly, if Amarok provides an experience that you perceive as nicer, it's a better player for you. Personally, I dislike the interface organisation.

(Notes of interest — mutter is my window manager, evolution is my email client, epiphany is my web browser, and nautilus is my file manager; Every process you see here except Amarok is running with full debugging symbols, being compiled from development code as of, oh, 7 hours or so ago).

[theotherhiveking]

My amarok uses 105mb with a playlist of 865 tracks, and 2-3% while idle.

[Seher]

My foobar uses about 40 mb, and it doesn't increase significantly when I add my whole music library to the playlist, (7833 tracks) just playing tracks makes it use ~75mb, up to 90 mb. (0-3% CPU while playing flacs)

Is there anything interesting about those stats ? :P I mean, it's not like 2% CPU usage or even 200 mb ram would influence playing games...

[KingTerra]

Winamp

[Znurre]

Originally Posted by Seher

My foobar uses about 40 mb, and it doesn't increase significantly when I add my whole music library to the playlist, (7833 tracks) just playing tracks makes it use ~75mb, up to 90 mb. (0-3% CPU while playing flacs)

Is there anything interesting about those stats ? :P I mean, it's not like 2% CPU usage or even 200 mb ram would influence playing games...

Nah, it's just that people use to think that Amarok 2 is too heavy.
Imo. 80 mb for 300+ songs is nothing when you consider the functionality you get.

PS: My amarok uses no CPU when idle:
http://ompldr.org/vNzZjdA/usage.png

[theotherhiveking]

Originally Posted by Znurre

Nah, it's just that people use to think that Amarok 2 is too heavy.
Imo. 80 mb for 300+ songs is nothing when you consider the functionality you get.

PS: My amarok uses no CPU when idle:
http://ompldr.org/vNzZjdA/usage.png

That confused the hell out of me, on graphical interfaces it says 0%, ps says 3%.

[Knekelvoeste]

Originally Posted by KingTerra

Winamp

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/1599/winampz.jpg

Could you help me out with installing that theme? I don't know that software to use to change Windows 7 theme. I used Vistaglazz for Vista but what to use for Windows?

And how do you guys manage to have such a small amount of music? I happen to have 20 gig of music atm and growing fast

[igna08]

Winamp, its pretty good.

[Arafails]

Originally Posted by Knekelvoeste

And how do you guys manage to have such a small amount of music? I happen to have 20 gig of music atm and growing fast

I have 1270 tracks in my music library at the moment, which is about 12 gig or so, but that includes some duplicates and a little while ago a power failure blew away about a half of it (as in, I should have 2500 or so). I've been a little slow to rebuild it because, frankly, I get bored of inserting CDs into the drive and pressing the rip button.

[Znurre]

Originally Posted by Knekelvoeste

Could you help me out with installing that theme? I don't know that software to use to change Windows 7 theme. I used Vistaglazz for Vista but what to use for Windows?

And how do you guys manage to have such a small amount of music? I happen to have 20 gig of music atm and growing fast

I have 25GB of music and 1500~ tracks, lossless ftw